Emily and her Jurassic pal Spike

THIS is the moment a six-year-old came face to face with a 160-million-year-old fossil she dug up with a seaside spade.

Emily Baldry was just five when she unearthed the Rieneckia odysseus fossil during her first archaeological dig last year – and promptly named it Spike.

She pulled the 130lb specimen – which has a diameter of 40cm – out of the ground with her father Jon at Cotswold Water Park in Gloucestershire.

The ammonite underwent a year of restoration by palaeontologist Neville Hollingworth and now boasts 2cm spikes.

Emily, who lives in Chippenham, Wiltshire, was reunited with the rock on Sunday, when she presented it to the Cotswold Water Park, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire.

She said she was impressed with Spike’s transformation.

‘’It is so exciting to see him,’’ she said. “I was very happy when I first saw him and now he looks very shiny.”

The fossilised mollusc lived in the oceans during the Jurassic period.